Apostolos Axenopoulos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980. He received the Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering and the M.S. degree in advanced computing systems from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Currently, he is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Computer and Communication Engineering Department, University of Thessaly.

He works as a Research Associate in the Information Technologies Institute, since 2003. He has been involved in several national and EC-funded research projects. His main research interests include 3D object indexing, content-based search and retrieval, multimodal search, multimedia applications and bioinformatics.